"It's not those who inflict the most, but those who endure the most, who will prevail.” – Terence MacSwiney -- Sinn Féin Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence, imprisoned by the British on sedition charges, died in 1920 while on a hunger strike.

1981 -- Bobby Sands and later nine other Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers died on a hunger strike at Northern Ireland’s Maze-Long Kesh prison protesting British injustices. As Sands lay fasting, he was elected to the House of Commons, but his term lasted less than a month. He died, aged 27, on the sixty-sixth day of his strike.

2011 -- Palestinian Khader Adnan, imprisoned in Israel without charge or trial, went on hunger strike. On his sixty-sixth day, in immediate danger of death, he was released for fear he would, like Sands, become an icon and release a torrent of further resistance.

2012 -- Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence went on hunger strike to protest a government push to terminate First Nations treaty rights throughout Canada. Her forty-three-day fast highlighted the grassroots Idle No More movement for North American Indigenous sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and respect for the – frequently broken -- treaties.

Palestinians, Native Americans, and the Irish (with the Bobby Sands Trust) honor one another and offer each other support, solace, and strength in their common search for justice.